Count Basie Orchestra on... oh no, we've already had that played.

Dear Simon - you can't be serious!!

I got out of my death bed...for a triangle ?? You're having a wee laugh surely...



Does Bazza's Bermuda count ???



Ticketysnorteryboo

Oh dear - Pink Panther theme? :(

Think I'm more likely to find a song featuring a blow torch ....

OK Simon - how's about Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" or Queen's "KIller Queen"???

Are u shhurrefring too Ticketywhatsit?

Ticketysniffboo - feeling a bit better, yes?

If you have the strength - does our FB group 'Blogpoppets of Simon Mayo's DriveTime Show' appeal?



xx

Been maxing out on flu pills and my head's mince... and then I have to think about a chuffin triangle...I'm away back to my pit....!!

Hope you feel better soon Rev.

Hello everyone else...

"Big Yellow Taxi" - please Simon....

#6. Rev, I've just looked up the triangle in Wiki, and I suspect that you have just named the shows entire triangle content, right there.

Given the The Mayofellow's penchant for things a bit folky, perhaps a bit of cajun wouldn't go amiss. There used to be a band in Derby in the late seventies or early eighties that performed under the name of R.Cajun and the Zydeco Brothers. They were blimmin' excellent and are still around. Now if simon could find something by them, he wouldn't go far wrong. However, no hits, so maybe a bit later on rather than an opener.

Please Simon, R.Cajun and the Zydeco Brothers, check 'em out!

I'm with Rockin' Rev - BYT purleese Simon! Hey folks, we got a blogtasticbreakthrough yestereve - a song and a mensh of the blog!

#10 GWS Ticketyflooboo x

#11 You've done better than me - I Googled songs with triangles and got nothing useful at all.



Love creme brulee though, will be interested to hear how Nigey does it.



Tortie

A little girl walks into a pet shop and asks in the sweetest little lisp, "Excuthe me, mithter, do you have any wittle wabbits?"

And the shopkeeper bends way down and puts his hands on his knees so he's on her level, and asks, "Do you want a wittle white wabby or a wittle bwack wabby? Or maybe that cute wittle bwown wabby over there?"

She in turn puts her hands on her knees, leans forward and says in a quiet little voice, "I don't fink my pyfon weally cares."

#15 Oh Rev, you are a one! LOL!!!

Vewy good Wev, like vat...lol



Simon - Triangles? You are 'avin' a giraffe old son!



Nic

Think triangle - think one-man-band?



Don Partridge springs to mind - had a hit way back when with 'Rosie'





tsk - naughty Revster ;-)

A man walks into a pet shop and says "I'd like to buy a wasp, please". The assistant replies "I'm very sorry, Sir, but we don't sell wasps". The man says "But you've got one in the window".

Am really trying to like Biffy Clyro song that's on ....

#12

Spike - re Weds show breakthrough. Obviously I missed it live because I was in the pub. Approx when did song/blogmench occur ?

#19 chuckle



It could only happen in Sheffield

;-)

Morning all - Simon, please start with "Big Yellow Taxi" - one of only 3 or 4 songs I can think of that include the said piece of metal...



Failing that, perhaps we could get away with "Tubular Bells"???

#21 Hic, 'bout half way through, I think...hang on a mo, I'll check *goes off to check* *returns from checking* *puff* music_geek got the crank-up song but no mensh and someone got the PG song AND a mensh AND a blog mensh at 6.30.

Let's broaden the scope - How about;



"Torn between two lovers" - Mary McGregor



"What about Me" - Kenny Rogers



and of course, "Bermuda Triangle" - Mr. Manilow...

Hang on a mo.....on I Feel Fine is that a trianglebob I hear, or are they just rim shots?

Hmm, "YYZ" by Rush from "Moving Pictures" - is that a triangle at the start or some sort of bell?



Failing that, there's what sounds like a triangle moment in "And You and I" by Yes, just before Steve Howe starts a bit of strumming.



Not really drive time material though, and I'm struggling to think of anything that would meet the hit critieria.

Morning all



#21 - the blog also got a mensh near the beginning of the show when SM was talking to Sally Traffic about his whistle being like Richard Briers - He then quoted Cornish Darren from yesterdays blog re the Somewhere over the Rainbow connection.



I'm struggling with a triangle thing as well at the moment. Back later if I thing of anything.



mtd ffb xxx

Hello Simon,



Just taking a peek over here to see what's occurring. Didn't John Lennon's song, (Just like) Starting Over begin with a triangle? If so, I'd love to hear that.



Mcw x from the CLP blog, but who is quite enjoying the banter here!

On second thoughts, it may have been a bell. Oh well at least I tried!

Morning again.



Triangles.



Me and Nic and a new life starting today.



It's so gotta be:-





Starting Over - John Lennon



with the intro triangle ting ting ting ting at the beginning, before he sings Our life together, is so precious together.



That's all, for now.



Deevs

(who has a box to fill)



x

#28 Missed that - nice one CD!!

#27 "tis indeed a triangle on "And You And I", but I agree that much as we'd love to hear it, it ain't gonna happen matey!

Is it too late or too early for Christmas songs?

Too early Spikey old mate - you leave Christmas out of it!! Christmas indeed......couughh....atatchhooo

Every day is like Christmas Day for me ....



x

Well yes, Deevvs...I know what you mean...I think I prefer Easter

Deevs #31 - Good choice of song. However, wasn't he shot shortly after that?

And if anyone else mentions that C word until December, thay may well suffer the same fate.



Nic



P.S. Yes, I am stressed!

Calm down dear. Tomorrow we relax. All day. Together.



x

I'm at home sick with a stomach bug today and feeling sorry for myself. However, I've just cheered myself up with the thought that I can hang out here for a bit longer than usual.



However, however - I have absolutely no idea about any song featuring said bent metal. Surely Simon's taking the michael...?

#33 Sorry Reindeerpeeps, I'm struggling too! Spikeyclaus x

#38 My Deevs, you ARE loved up, aintcha? ;-) So are you living over the brush or is Nic making an honest woman of you? Congratulations either way!

LOL Tricky! You'll have to ask him that, but either way there's a "D" word to sort out first ..... cue Tammy Wynette (or Billy Connolly!) warbles ....



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Ah.....doughnuts....

"Triangulations" by Clifford Richard? No, don't tell me there is, purleeeeeze! *secretly sniggers though cos it's first ear worm of the day*

...Just thought of a triangle song (I think!) - Didn't "Concrete & Clay" have a triangle accompaniment?

Isn't there a triangle in that really irritating song by Mika? (Ok, so there are a few to choose from but you know which one I mean)



Nic

#46 The Grace Kelly one? I think you're right.

LOL Nic - you haven't put my 2 x Mika CDs on your iPod then ..... !?!?!



x

Nic and Deevs, congrats on the upcoming union. I find it funny that you wont mention the D.I..... word out loud, but have no qualms whatsoever about the word Mika! Nic, my advice, although I don't think you need it, would be that rather than put the Mika C.D.'s on an ipod, find some other domestic device to put them on. A hotplate for example.:-)

Paul - Thanks for the idea...lol...it's a bit "bubble gum" pop for me...although that song also has a horses hooves sound in it too doesn't it - how many songs with that AND a triangle I wonder?!



Nic

Hehehe Paul - just wait til he hears me warbling Grace Kelly in the shower of a morning .... x x x

Nic - you stalking me!?!? x x x x

This triangle business has been really annoying me, and all the time a triangle toon has been right under my nose!! One of my favourite groups, Tears For Fears used the triangle in the introduction to 'Shout'. So please Simon, could you play that?



Now I can get on with the rest of my day!



Sorry to the others for the interruptions, I'll go back to the 'other side' now. Mcw x

Off to a cpl of meeting now - have fun and good luck. It will be intriguing to see what song will be played first! Cheers...

Mika - is that the person responsible for that "blame it on the boy/girls/whatever" nonsense I keep hearing, and which I assume must be playlisted to have got airtime on the grown-ups station :-)



Bob Harris must just about have the best job in the world as far the ability to build his own show is concerned.

Ken,



Yep, that's the very culprit. Annoying, irritating stuff isn't it?! (That's Mike, not Bob, clearly!)



Nic

Meant Mika, not Mike clearly too!

Oh Jubilate, Jubilate Fluffyblogeroonies!! Elbow on SW. Love their "Loneliness of A Tower Crane Driver" almost as much as anything by Guillemots.

Patrick Wolf's The Magic Position has a fine triangular end to it...the very end mind. Other than that...every time I'm playing song in my head to think of more I think I'm inserting imaginary triangle type notes into them so can't say of any more with any degree of certainty. Beach Boys must have had more than a few triangles in their time. Does The Drifters Save the Last dance for me have have one?

"I can be brown, I can be blue, I can be violet SKY...."



The dog is now looking at me very worriedly. If dogs can look worried.

LOL Deebee! I love that song with a passion that actually scares me!



Thinking about the triangle theme .... surely some auld prog rock pifflement must have featured a triangle - it just seems so "right", with all the pointy hats and silky capes!



Deevs



x

#61 Now now Deeevalaaaaah (robot dance) behave on your big day! Anyway, see #27 *plays long, triumphant synth solo*

Oh and get well soon Deebee... lots of that icky sicky business goin about

YES! x

#53 I'm intrigued as to where the "other side" is. And why it has to be in quotes...



#63 thanks music_geek - I'm already feeling a bit better, although as I said earlier on the FB group I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to cope with Nigel and his creme brulee tonight. Pity - it's usually one of my favourites.

#53 Big fan of Tears For Fears - so it gets my vote mcw!

music_geek, you truly IS a music geek mate! Well impressed with your knowledge.

this triangle thing..."That's not my name" by the T...

oh alright then...I've not been well you know..

Thanks Spike!

#68 NOOOOOO!!!!! That "song" makes my ears bleed

Pointy hats sounds like it should be a Gong thing. I've seen Yes a dozen or more times and never seen a pointy hat. I can't deny the existence of capes though :-)

#71 Funny how things get triggered isn't it - this is just one huge stream of consciousness, not a blog at all. So, Steve Hillage's "Aftaglid" on Fish Rising begins with SUSTAINED triangle, no less!!!

#72 *dodges flying pig*

Spike, thank you!!!!! Mispent youth in front of the cd player (born too late for viynl sadly) I was about to give a shout for Shout but the madchikenwoman beat me to it... could be a serious contender :)

#74 why, you're most welcome old bean, but what's a cd?

Well sir them there cds are what kids born today will probably never own now that music is invisible or digital if you wanna be technical about it :)

Oooooo arrrrr, pass me that gatefold sleeve would you? But seriously - has anyone found a foolproof way of converting vinyl to digital on a Mac? Looked into various turntables, but am confused dot com....

*Ken commences 20 minute drum solo in celebration at triggering another triangle suggestion, and considers a listen of Live Herald for Thursday evening* :-)



News to rejoice over - an iPhone app allowing downloading of iPlayer stuff is imminent. Soon I shall be able to listen to missed bits of Drive, and Saturday Night Bobness, in my lunch hour, and also on the way home at 4pm when on early shift. I caught 20 mins of "the big show" yesterday, the highlight of which was the reading of today's Radio 2 schedule. No more - having downloadable BBC radio shows for my iPhone will be like having my own radio station. It's like having Sky+ for mobile audio. Fantastic.

Ooooh - blimmin love you lot :)



Just got in and couldn't wait to divest of coatage, baggage, etc. to get on here and I just KNEW it would be worth the read.



It's not just the underlying warmth of the dialogue, as it were - but also I am learning SO much! Musically, that is. Languageness I can do.



xx

Just remembered Deeevs!

Hope they're giving you a good send-off =- from what I already know of you, sounds as though you will be much missed



BDx

Ahhhh...Palm Trees (Love Guitar) - it's even radio friendly. And the video available on a certain vid channel (and some rubbish ones, etc) is lovely and features one of my fave films - The Notebook. No triangles though. Which gives me another idea for the FB site Blogpoppets of Simon Mayo's DriveTime Show *dashes across to site*

#81 Sorry, that's by Steve Hillage - check it out, it's beyuwtifull

The only sleeves I have are on my coat, shirts and tops except for a few of them big round black things I liberated from mum a while back.



A bit of sadness in the family meant I inherited a music box presented to my granda in 1966. When I got it in the flat it worked for the first couple of times, I had what was then the Best of the Beach Boys released in 1969 on the turntable. Oh Heros and Villans has triangles!!! Anyway it just ground to a halt the last time I had it on so waitin to get it fixed. Love it though :)



Sadly none of that answers your question Spike, the geek chic only extends to music and not technology sadly...

Apropos of earlier comments ...

how come I find Mika irritating in the extreme - yet find Paolo utterly irresistable?

I can only speak for myself BabyD but I guess there's a bit more substance to Paolo musically at least. I don't think Mika is a bad person, he is tryin to provide a bit of a different sound. I liked Grace Kelly and a couple from his first album but the latest stuff isn't doing much for me whereby a lot of people I know who like different sorts of music are agreed about the Pencil Full of Lead tune being tops :)



As a certain Mark Radcliffe is known to say at times "What's not to like?"

OMG, Mika's appearing on PopStar/OperaStar this week....*runs away*

Abso-bloomin-lutely music_geek -

completement concur with you and Mr Radcliffe [am reading his latest booky-wooky at mo].

With Mika, for me, it's the lyrics - his favourite phrase 'what's the matter?' crops up in SO many tracks on latest album. Yeah - he's a sweetie AND he's talented - not for me though. P'haps I'm just too old :)

#86 Why is Mika on? He's not an opera singer, as far as I know.



We Sky+ it and fast forward through the inanities of MeatLoaf and all the adverts - much more enjoyable that way!

#86



*runs alongside*

#88 apparently....he was trained by a Russian opera singer in his teens....

#77



SpikeStar - have put your query to some of my techie mates - will let you know if any response

#91 Oooooooothankooooooooo x

Hit the road yet Deevski?

#77 sell vinyl + buy CD + rip CD to Mac is probably foolproof, if sacriligious! :-)



One of the sadnesses of technological progress is that chunks of music collections probably end up unplayed as it doesn't all get converted or re-bought on newer media. I'm on my 3rd copies of the Yes catalogue (vinyl, CD, remastered CD), 3rd copy of Seconds Out (2x vinyl, one CD), second copies of Floyd catalogue, etc. etc. but the Queen albums from when they were at their best (through to Day at the Races) and other stuff all lie unlistened to in the bottom of a wardrobe because my HiFi rack doesn't have room for the turntable these days and I just can't buy all of it again on CD (and refuse to buy on mp3).



It's also a worr about what would happen after a burglary. Would I ever buy it all again? I somehow doubt it.

Approaching 100 posts - pretty much the same time as we were yesterday, curiously enuff.



Have to confess to being somewhat distracted by our fabbydabby facebook nest - am a-hoppin back and forth like a demented stork ...

#94 *gasps for breath, clutches chest, reaches for phone, 999*

*survives scare* Gotta go teach in a bit my little cottonwoolbuds, will iPlayer later to hear all the Blog menshes! Have fun!

:-) I know, gatefold sleeves really aren't the same if they aren't 12x12 when folded to their smallest size.

Just back from funeral - what have I missed?

Shh - it's starting!